Encyclopedia of French Film Directors

604 • LAVIRON, JEAN
LAVIRON, JEAN (April 26, 1915, Paris, France–)
Having graduated with a bachelor’s degree in law, he
began his career as an assistant director to Marcel
L’Herbier (1942 La Nuit fantastique / UK and USA: Fantastic
Night; 1943 L’Honorable Catherine / USA: The Honorable
Catherine; 1945 La Vie de Bohème / La Bohème,
France / Italy, shot in 1942; 1946 Au Petit Bonheur) and
Jean Faurez (1948 La Vie en Rose; 1949 Vire-au-Vent). In
1944, he became one of the fi rst teachers of the ID-
HEC fi lm school. He also was a technical adviser (1949
Une Nuit à Saint-Germain-des-Prés, also co-director, Fred
Savdie; 1958 Vive les Vacances!, Jean-Marc Thibault) and
screenwriter (1950 Les Derniers Jours de Pompéi / Gli ultimi
giorni di Pompei / USA: Sins of Pompei / The Last Days
of Pompei, as co-screenwriter, Marcel L’Herbier, Paolo
Moffa, France / Italy; 1956 La Vie est belle, also technical
adviser, Roger Pierre, Jean-Marc Thibault).
Filmography
1951 Un Amour de Parapluie (short; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
Descendez, on vous demande (also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1953 Au Diable la Vertu (also screenwriter, adapter,
co-dialogist)
Légère et court vêtue (also screenwriter, adapter,
dialogist)
1954 Soirs de Paris (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)
Votre Dévoué Blake
1959 Les Motards (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
1960 Les Héritiers (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter,
co-dialogist)
Television Filmography
1962 L’Inspecteur Leclerc enquête / L’Inspecteur Leclerc
(episodes “Coup double,” “Feu M. Serley”)
1965 Mon Filleul et moi (12 25'; also screenwriter,
dialogist)
1967 Les Créatures du Bon Dieu / Histoires d’Amour
(13 26')
1970 Ca vous arrivera Demain (13 26')
1975 Erreurs judiciaires (13 26'; co-director only)
1979 Par devant Notaire (episodes “La Résidence
du Bonheur,” “La Saison des Brumes”; also
screenwriter, dialogist)
LAVOREL, HENRI (July 5, 1914, Annecy, Haute-
Savoie, France–January 7, 1955, Versailles, Yvelines,
France)
A member of Minister of Information André Malraux’s
cabinet in 1945, he had a brief career as a director and
producer (1950 Ballerina, Ludwig Berger; 1951 Olivia /
USA: The Pit of Loneliness, Jacqueline Audry; L’Auberge
rouge / USA: The Red Inn, Claude Autant-Lara; 1954 Les
Intrigantes, Henri Decoin; 1955 Chéri-Bibi / Il forzato della
Guiana, Marcello Pagliero, France / Italy). He died in a
car crash at age forty. From 1946 to 1949, he was married
to British actress Madeleine Carroll (1906–1987).
Filmography
1951 Le Voyage en Amérique / UK: The Voyage to
America / USA: Trip to America (also co-screenwriter,
producer)
1953 C’est arrivé à Paris / USA: It Happened in Paris
(also co-adapter, producer; John Berry is the
real director of the movie)
LÊ, LAM (1948, Haiphong, Vietnam–)
Having settled in France since 1968, he graduated
with a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and studied
plastic arts at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts of Paris and
in the Yankel painting workshop (1970–1973). He
entered fi lms as an assistant art director (1976 Les
Oeufs brouillés, Joël Santoni) before successively working
as an assistant director (1979 Le Piège à Cons, also
art director, Jean-Pierre Mocky) and storyboarder
(1980 La Porte d’Orient, Henry Colomer; 1981 Garde
à Vue / UK and USA: The Inquisitor / Under Suspicion,
Claude Miller; 1987 Le Palanquin des Larmes, Jacques
Dorfmann, France / Canada / China; 1996 Microcosmos:
Le Peuple de l’Herbe / Microcosmos—Il popolo
dell’erba / USA: Microcosmos, Claude Nuridsany, Marie
Pérennou, France / Italy / Switzerland; 1997 Port-
Djema, also co-screenwriter, Eric Heumann, France
/ Italy / Greece). He also played in La Femme mariée
de Nam Xuong (short, Anh Hung Tran, 1989) and La
Pierre de l’Attente (short; Anh Hung Tran).
Filmography
1980 Rencontre des Nuages et du Dragon (documentary;
medium-length)
1983 Poussière d’Empire / Hon Vong Phu (also coscreenwriter;
France / Vietnam)
2006 Vingt Nuits et un Jour de Pluie / 20 Nächte und
ein Regentag (also co-screenwriter, production
manager, art director; France / Germany)
Television Filmography
1982 Botaniques
1984 Sports en Scène (documentary)